[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Update existing sources instead of removing them first for VCS sources.

Lukas Jirkovsky l.jirkovsky at gmail.com
Wed Oct 16 10:19:06 EDT 2013


On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Lukas Jirkovsky <l.jirkovsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is creating a branch actually necessary? git checkout should work just
> fine when dealing with branches and commits and for tags the ref could
> be prepended with "tags/" I don't know how big problem a detached head
> would be. I suppose nobody sane would do a real development in
> makepkg's repository though.

Never mind this comment. It kinda makes sense when someone wants to
patch the sources with eg. "git apply"


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